Apparatus for feeding and delivering glass.



l PATENTED MAR. 5 1907.

J. SQHIES, i A1 ARATUS PQR PBBDING AND DBLIVBRING GLASS.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.. 19, 1906.

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APLDARATUVS FOB. FEEDING AND DELIVBRING GLASS.

APPLOATIUN FILED MAR. 19, 1906.

No. 846.057 ATENTED MAR. 5, 1907. J. SCHIES.

APPARATUS POB EEBDING AND DELIVERNG GLASS.

y APP-mum HAAP MAR. 1Q. 1906.

M AAM/w 55W Unrriin srafrns JOHN SCHIES, OF ANDERSON, ENDANA.

-APPARJTUS FDH FEEDiNG N n oE-iivesineeL/iss.

Speciceton of Letters Patent;

'Eatented March 5, 1907.

Application filed March 19,1906. Serial No. 306,826.

.and improved feeding and delivering glass directly from the glass-nielting pot or furnace or chamber containing the molten glass in order to save the intermediate manual handling or manipulation of the saine between said chamber and the forming devicesuch as a pressvrnold, blow-mold, or the like-and niy invention has for its object the providing of means whereby thev glass may he ted troni the said ohainherand as it ifed divided or severed into blanks or ingotsl oi predetermined size, dependent on the 'amount oi giass to he employed in themanufacture of the article, and consists in. providing the meltingpot or liquid-glass chainher with a mouth through which the molten glass is adapted to disoharge'into a receptacle arranged to have movement imparted thereto transversely ol' the mouth; further, in providing a inciting or fluid ohainher having` a .n'ionth troni which the glass 'is adapted to discharge, across which niouth a cutting lilade, knife, or gate is adapted to he inoved for severing` the in- .got orhlank troni the molten glass, the said ingot or blank being received into a receptaele having movement transversely of the inoutli; furtherfin providing a receptacle in which the inolten glass is adapted to lind a level dependent on the level ot' glass in the molten-glass ohainl'ier; further. in providing a receptacle arranged to receive and liniit the flow of rnolten glass :troni the inoltenglass chamber; further, in provid'inpl a molten-glass ohaniher and blank-receptacle so correlated as to normally raus@ ilowiroin said molten-glass chainhcr .int-o said receptacle until the glass in said receptacle has obtained the level otinolten glass in said chan1- ber, whereupon said flow will cease: further, in providing adjustment 'to a receptacle of the character mentioned wlierehy the amount of @lass feeding thcrointo niay he regulated; turther, in making a `inoltenlass receptacle o, sii-sided lioi cinising the therehy to iinpingje relation to which the s id nimenient toi, fr

U r blank or ingot received, against a lai'o ivi th receptacle is giron l i l l i i l l l l l 'slidingr lit against the faire 10 ol' a rolling inotion to said ingot or blank,- fue ther, in preparing the ingot or blank for the forming-` device hy imparting thereto a rollingl motion; iurthenin mounting receptacles of the character described upon an intermittently-rotated carrier adapted to arily positioned while said receptacles are receiving the molten glass for forming the ingot or blank' and for having a rotary motion i1nparted thereto intermittently for dischargtrom the following description and claims and from the drawings, in which latter- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my irnproved device, partly broken away. Fie. 2 is aside elevation of the saine. ig. 3 is aver ticnl section on the line a' a: of Fig. 1. Fig. #l is a plan. View of i'ny iinproved device. big. is a cross-section on the irregnlar line y y of ifig, 1 and Fig. is a i'ror1t` elevat.ion o1 the be stationeoiunin, partly broken away, showing the slidcway with the knife andknit'e-har therein.

1 represents a molten-glass chanii er hav-- ing a niouth 2. This niouth lwidens in Wardly, as shown at 3, so that the glass may lie suojcoted to the heat in the cliainier loupr as possitle.

ei is a housing; adapted to lie secured with relation to the niolien-glass chainber and servingr as a supporting-traine fory the operating devices oi iny improved apparatus. ift knilo 5 has rooiprocation in a slideway 6 of the housing, across an opening 7 in said housing, said opening forming a part of the niouth 2 oi said molten-glass chain er.

i rarrier 3 has intermittent rotation on a trunnion i) on said housingl and is held with said housing hy means ot a collar 11. mounted on said carrier equal distances apart. There niay lge any suitaile nuin' er ot these receptacles, oi which i have shown tour. At the receptacles the carrier 8 is provided" with slots 13. The receptaolecarrier is adagitod to corne interinittentlyto positions ol' rest when the respective slots 13 register vi'iih the mouth extending i'roin the chamter 1, and when in suoh position of rest the gate or kniic 5 is moved into raised relation for permitting' the inolten glass to discharge troni the olianiier i through the inouth and lhc .slot i3 onto the receptacle 12 at the tiinc in liront oi the inoutin In order to permit ie level ot the inolten glass i ihisdisoharee, Yl shown at ist) preierahly kept at such a Receptacles 12 are IOO IIC:

height as to cause llow 'from said chamber. l necessary or desirable for formingr the ni l also )refer that the walls ol the receptacles l ished article to be made Thus the delivery exten vashighorhigherthan the glass-level may be made into a mold, and I have indiin said chamber when said receptacles are lol 5 cated at said mouth, so that in case oli teml,

porary stoppage of the machine or if' 'fpr mold of a glass-press1ngr machine or the press other reason the regular intern'iittent motion or blow mold of' a glass-blowing machine. ln of the carrier ceases the walls of said reeepta order to impart the most desirable shape to' l cated a mold into which the delivery may be made at 22, which may be the ordinary presso cle will limit the flow oi glass from said chamthe glass ingot or blank l prefer to round oil ze ber, thereby preventing 4overflow or waste of the bottom of the mouth, as shown at 23, and glass. This construction, has the further tocorrespondingly shape the cuttingl edge of advantage that the predetermined quantity the knife, as shown at'24, the cutting edge of of glass in the receptacle can be determined l the kni'l'e curving` downwardly for permitting to anicety, and l provide means for adjusting easy delivery of the molten glass through the p5' the receptacles with relation to the mouth lor mouth. The glass receptacles preferably adjusting this predetermined quantity oi comprise a bottom 25, a side 26, and a backflass, and l do this preferably by providing` 27, the inside faces of the receptacle being inclined ways l5 on said carrier at said slots rounded, as shown at 28. ln certain adjustupon' which the inclined ways l@ of said rements ot the receptacles the guide-face 15- ze ceptacles 'have bearing, the said receptacles will form part of the bottom'ol' the recepta 8 5 being provided with slots 17, through which cle, and this face beine; madeslanting readily .bolts 18 take against washers 20 for securing forms part of the bottom of the receptacle.v 4the receptacles in place, the slots being wider y I also preferably make the receptacles openthan thel bolts for permitting-vertical as well sided at the side adjacent to lthe housing' and z5 as lateral adjustment of the receptacles for locate the mouth ot' the molten-glass cham- 9o determining the amount of glass which may ber at said open side for permitting the molbe received by the receptacles and position p ten glass to llow into said receptacle.

ing the receptacles so that its walls maybe as When motion is imparted to the receptahigh as or nigher than the glass-level. clecar'rier,the severed ingrot or blank makes 3o prefer to malte the connection between the contact with the face l0, which is shown 95 carrier and receptacles upon 'a slanting` face l ribbed, whereby the ingot or blank is 'caused for reasons hereinafter explained. to roll in the receptacle, it being understood As soon as snllicient glass to lorln the artithat when the carrier is given its intermittent cleA to be manutactrued has discharged into rotary movement the receptacle will move 35 the receptacle the knife 5is caused to descend transversely ol the mouth-et'. e., descend roo for severing said fredeterniined amount of away ,from the mouth--the housing, howglass that has so een discharged from the ever, with its face l0, remaining stationary, body of the molten glass, thereby forming and thereby acting as a stationary contactthe ingot oi blank from which the article is face against the inovingingot or blank, which 40 to be formed, and rotary movement is also results in a rolling motion given to the blank. 105 imparted to the carrier for removing the It will be further noted that the receptacles receptacle into which the glass has just are placed tang'entially on the rotary carrier, discharged from the mouth and causingr the the outer or discharge end 29 of the bottom nextesucceeding slot and receptacle to register being higher than .the inner end 30 of said` 45 with said. mouth, whereupon the rotation ol' bottom at the receptacle into which the mol i ro the carrier and the knife 5 is raised l ten glass is at the time discharging, thereby tor permitting the molten glass to discharge y positioning the plane of the bottom tangeninto said succeeding receptacle. ln the tially with relation to the rotary axis of the meantime the ingot or blank of glass (as, see 1 carrier. When now theicarrier is given its 5e the blanl; 2l) has been discharged lrom the intermittently rotary movement, the angle 115 last preceding receptacle, preferably' in manl of the bottoni with relation to the horizontal `nerbereinaiter explained. lit will further be l plane will change, causing its outer o r dis noted that when'the knife descends to cut" charge end 29 to gradually assumeva position oli the predetermined ingot or blank oi glass below the level of the inner end 3() of the re- `g5 that it acts as a grate for closing the mouth. y ceptacle into which the discharge has just 1go l l l l lt is desirable that the blank or ignot shall taken place, and as the carrier continues its rotation the mgot or blank, besides the rollf y 'begathercd togetherinto compact mass and I l formed, ttor instance, into substantially ball' mg movement imparted to 1t by the station-v ary lace ol the housing, will also rollalongr the bottoni of the receptacle toward its discharge r2 5 shape, so that when ift is operated on in its 6o succeeding manipulation it may forni an artiend for discharging the invot or blank into. the mold 22, whereupon t e said ingot or ele which is tree of seams and blow-holes.

.'lhe ingot or bla-nl; is adapted to be operated l en alter l; fed from' my improved blank is subjected to its succeeding maniputeeding ano delivej sature., such snc- 1 lations. l weeding rzianipul... ci; as may be l' ll' too great a speed of rotation is given the i 3o said mouth.

way 4ll and may v reducing friction.

may be danger' of the blank being discharged at otherpoints than at the lower position of rest oi the charged receptacle, and in order to overcome the difficulties incident to this and at the saine timecontinue carrier, there rolling motion to the blank, l provide a chute y l31, securedto the housing and having a bottom 32, located, preferably, beyond the "pe- 'riphery of the carrier eccentr cally with relation to said carrier' and having a deliveryspout 33 above the forming device. 22.' I prefer also to bevel the upper or advancing Walls 34 of the slots 13 for forming a cutting edge 35 at said advancingwall of' the slot adapted to take across mc' lten,f, ;lass` chamber and the knife 5 for ai g in severing' the ingot. cr blank from the molten glass when the rotary motion is imparted to the carrier. Thi ,'cutting edge also serves as a knife when the knife is removed or out of commission, the webs 36 of the carrier between the slots serving as gates between times of registry of said slots with This cutting edge may be on a separate blade 437, which, it desired, may 'have adjustment with relation'to the carrier by means of bolts 38, taking through slots 3S) in lugs 39 on said carrier and into the bar.

I prefer to automatically operate the knife .5' and rotating carrier, and l'or this purpose l rovide mechanism, whereby, preferably, the fe 5 in its descent or closing movement is caused to act just prior to the rotary movement imparted to the receptacle-carrier, which rotary movement is immediately followed by the ascending or opening movement oi the e 5 immediately after the rotary .movement .of the receptacle-carrying plate has ceased.- y

`40 is a bar for the knife operati-ng in slidebe backed by balls 42 for The bar is provided with lugs 43 44, having wiping-faces 45 46, which are preferably slanted forwardly toward each oth er. 47 is a slide reciprocating' in slideway 48 in. the housing.

pivoted, respectively, at 47 and having wiping-faces to respectively engage the perating the bar 4() up. and

49 50am wipers 51 52 to the slide 53 54, adapted faces 46 45 for o down and also having' rearwardlyfreceding faces 55 56, adapted to make contact with the lugs 43 44, which have rearwardly-receding faces 57 58 for causing said wipers to recede out of the path of said lugs. 'lhe tails 59 '60 of' said Wipers 49 5() are respectively backed by springs 61 62 in pockets 63 64, the springs respectively taking between the tails 59 60 and washers 65 66 in the respective pockets backed by adjusting-screws 67 68 for regulating the tension ci saidsprings.

s construction also prevents .breakage ci" the parts.

j The hub 71 of the carrier 3 is provided with l i l l a spider 72, thearms 73 of which have pins 74, provided with collars 75. The slide 47 has a rod 76 pivoted thereto at 77, the said pivot being preferably located in a vertical plane between the vertical planes ot the pin, which said rod is adapted to engage and ci the rotary axis of the carrier ior causing said rod y gravity to normally lie and travel in the groove 78, formed at the respective pins between'the arms 73 and collar 75 of said pins. The rod is provided with a shoulder 79, adapted to engage the respective pins for `translating the reciprocating .movement of said rod into rotary movement of said carrier.' Forepermitting adjustment of tlie'shoulder it may be mounted on'a barbO, adjustably secured tothe rod by means ol bolts 31. passing through the bar-and slots S2 in the rod, a take-up bolt 83 screwing through the bar against thc end of the rod.

For reciprocating the slide 47 a Walkingbeam 85 is pivoted at 86 to the housing and has a link 87 articulating it with the slide by means of the connecting-pins 83 39, movement being imparted to said walking-beam as by means of a crankrod'QQ connecting therewith from a crank 91, operated in suitable manner.

'lhe knife 5 is preferably made separable lroni and adjustable with relation to its bar, as by providing the knife with a step-lug Q2, an adjusting-screw 93 screwing thereagainst in a lug 94 on the knife-bar, securing-bolts 95 taking' through slots 96 in extensions 97 onr the knife and into the knife-bar.

Assuming that the knife isin raised position, the rod 76 also being in raised position, thc slide 47is caused to descend. ln descending the wiper 5() lirst makescontact with the wiping-face of the knife-bar, causing'the knife to desceml and close the mouth olE the molten-glass chamber lor stopping 'the flow oilE glass therefrom and cutting ollT the blank Aor ingot ol" The wiper is so constructed by reason o1C the angle at which the wiping-faces are placed and the tension imparted by the spring to the wiper that sullicic'nt downward force is exerted upon the knii'e to properly andA clearly cu t oli`l the glass blank or ingot, and when this has been accomplished the wiper will recede, permitting the slide to descend for bringing the shoulder 79 into contact with the pin 74 on the rotating carrier 3 which at the time is inline therewith, thereby imparting rotary movenient to said carrier, the descent of the slide continuing until the next succeeding slot in the carrier has been caused to register with the mouth ol the chamber l, whereu )on a s rin f-actuated catch 93 cessation of movement ol" the cari cr at -the proper point. ln the meanwhile rearwardly-receding face oi the wiper 19 has IOS iii,

-of the mouth 2 l made contact with the lugs 43 44, the said wiper thereby being pushed out of line with saidlugs-until the lugs are passed 'by thewiper, whereupon the wiper will reenter the path of said lugs. After the rotary'move- .ment has been imparted to the carrier the the knife-bar makes contact With a stop 10.1,`

4shown in the form of a i'eleasable screiv 'iii the rear of the-housing, the excess of pressure upon said bar thereby causing said wiper 49 to recede. out of the path of said lug and the lug 43, the rearwardly-receding face 56 of the wi )er 50 also passing said lugs for pushing tlieI wipers out of path therewith, the wiper 50 immediately snapping back into its path" upon passage of ug 43, ready to engage said ,lug at the. beginning of the lowiiwnrd movement of the slide. Having the pair of wipers lengthens the/time during which the mouth of chamber 1 may remain open for discharging molten glass, which is a desirable feature. .lf desired, the knife may a boro 102 for permitting the circulation of a cooling liquir therethrough, and the face 10, against which the ingot or blank is adapted to roll, may be provided with grooves 103, forming;` ribs 104, or a roughened surface for aiding in such rolling function This roughened surface preferably stops short 'or forming a plane face 105 adjacent the glass-receiving edge of the receptacle when the latter is receiving molten glass. The position of the cutting edge of bc provided with the knife when the latter 'is in raised relaby the dotted line 24 iii Fig. G. The slide 47 may also be provided with slices 106, taking against the bar 40, for aiding in retaining,r the latter in its slideway.

Having; thus fully described my invention, what vl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v i in ap iaratus for tion' is shown feeding glass, the coinbination o a iiiolteii-glass chamber having a mouth, a molten-glass receptacle having a retaining-wall for molten glass as high as the level of ghi-ss in said chamber and a bottoni extending below the level of glass in said chamber and movable downwardly from said mouth, and severing means for the molten glass.

2. ln apparatus for feeding glass, the conibiiation of a molten-glass chamber having a mouth and a molten-glass receptacle having an inclined bottom movable downwardly from said mouth7 the incline of said bottom changing during said downward movement,

J and severing means for the molten glass.

' for severing the molten glass in "bination a molten-'glass chamber esame? 3. in ap aratns for feeding glass, the conibinatioi'i o a molten-glass chamber having .a mouth, a inoiteii-glass receptacle having a bottom movable downwardly from sai mouth, said receptacle having an openside at `which said mouth is located, and means said recept-a cle from the molten glass in said chamber.

4., in apparatus ofthe class described, the combination with a inoltenwjiass chamber and a movable glass-recepisce, said cham-' ber having a mouth and said receptacle havingr an open side adapted to ijegiste with said mouth and a retaining-wall for the molten glass as hiO'li as the, molten glass in said chamber, of a miie at saidv mouth forniing a gate for the molten glass in said chamber, and means for intermittently moving said receptacle .and knife.

5. in apparatus for feeding the com having a mouth, a' molten-glass receptamc at said mouth into which 'tl'ieinolten glass from said chamber flows by gravir said receptacle having a retainingovall for the ischen glass as high as the level glass 1in said chamber,

said receptacle beingn'iovable with relation to said chamber, said receptacle and said molten glass.

0. ln apparatus for feeding glass, the com'- binatioii of a molten-glass chamber having a chamber tor severing mouth, a `molten-gilass receptacle for iece'ii-,l

ingr the iiow of molten glass froni s d chain-- ber, said chaiiiberlinvim, walls as high as the level of molten glass in said. chamber for liniiting said flow and means for moving said receptacle with relation to said chamber.

7. ln apparatus of the described, the combination with a iiiolteiiqgvglsss chamber,- `a carrier, receptacles on Iier having openings at lsaid receptacles adapted to 'respectively register with the mouth of said chan'iber tl. .s met've receptacles at ,si-iid. i'noutn having; retainingavails for the molten. gie-,ss as high the Alevel of molten glass insaid chamber, and a severing device at said mouth, the advancing walls of said openings each having a cutting edge at said severing device.

8.. in appara "ns of the el combination with a moiteinglass nssdescribed, the chamber and a movable @lass-rece tacle, of a carrier andnienns acting between ICO.

said carrier, said care seo the molten glass in' said chamber, said recep tacle haring an inlet .for the molten glass from said chamber at one face discliaigze-opeiiing. for4 the severed vglass at 'another tl'ierof, substitutie-ily as idlescrihed.

9. in apparatus ofthe class described, the1 combination with a niol'teii--glass chamber and a movable glass-receptacle, of a carrier thereof and a s," said receptac'ies having an inlet for the inolon which said receptacleY is mounted, said l the combination with moltengless chamcarrier provided with a cutting edge for sevher hex ing a mouth, a severing'device at said ering thc molten glass'in said receptacle from i mouth, a glassrcccl)tacle having walls, one lthe molten'glass in said chamber, said car- 0lI said Walls having movement with relation. 5 rier acting asaga-te for the mouth ci said to thc'o'her, and tno other ol' said Walls pro- 7o chamber and said receptaoe having en inlet vided with grooves l'or imparting rol-ling for the molten glass from said chamber at movement to the glass blank in said receptaone face thereof and a discharge-opening for cle. thesevered glass at anotheriace thereof, sublb. In. apparatus for feeding` glass, the 1o stantially as described. combination with a molten-glass chamber 75 10. In apparatus of the class described,"y having a mouth, a molten-glass receptacle the combination of a molten-glass chamber l and a forming device, oi' means for severing havingamotith, acarrier, receptacles mountthe molten glass in said receptacle into a ed on said carrier, slots in said carrier at said blank, said receptacle having an inlet for the r 5 receptacles, said carrier Jn'rovided with cutmolten glass arranged to register vauth. said 8o ting edges atsaid slots for severing the rnomouth at' one iace thereof and c dischargcten glass in the receptacle being charged from opening for the severed blank at another'liace the molten glass insaid ciiamber, and each of thereof, and chute between said receptacle and forming device for imparting rolling nioten glass from said chamber at one face thcretion to said blank by surface contact or' said 8- Of and s discharge-opening for the severed blank with said chute,'substantially as deglass at another acethereo, substantially as scribed. I

escribed. i7. A[n apparatus ofthe class described, i il. In 'apparatus oi the ciass described, the'combinetion of e, molten-glass chamber z5 thecombination of a moltenhglas's chamber havinga month, a revoiuble carrier, said car- '9o having a m0uth,arevoliible carrier, said car- `rier having slots thereinv and Webs between rier having slots `the-rein and Webs between ,said slots, molten-glass receptacles mounted said slots,'molten-glassreceptacles mounted I on. said carrierat said slots, means for imon saidc Arrierat said slotsandymeans for i parting intermittent revoluble motion to i 3o impe'ting:intermittent revolublemotion to Said carrier for causing said respective recepg5 saidfcarrieriorcansingsaidres' enti-ve recep tacles and slots to register with said. mouth, ,tacles and slotstoregistervitli said month, said carrier provided with cutting edges aty said carrier provided with cutting edges at said respectivesiots for severing the molten saidrespectivc slotsV for severing the molten glass in said respective receptacles from the 35 glass-in the receptacle being charged from moiten'giass in said. chamber, said webs re- :oo the molten glass in said' chamber, and said spectively acting as gates for said mouth, Webs respectively acting as gates for said and a chute at said carrier for receiving the monA severed glass from said respective receptacles. 12.111 `apparatus for feeding glass, the 18. In apparatus of the class described,

4c combination of a molten-glass chamber hav; the combination of a moltemglass chambenio" D 111g a mouth,a mhltemglass receptacle, means having a mou th, a revcluble carrier, sind carfor severing the molten glass in said receptarier having slots therein and Webs between cie into a blank, said receptacle having an insaid slots, molterrglass receptacles mounted let for the-molten giass arranged to register on said carrier at said siots, means for im- Jgf with said month, at one face thereof and a parting .intermittent revoiuble motion to said i 1o dischargenpening for the severed blank at carrier for causing said respective recepane'ther face thereof, ami means for dischargt'a is and` siots to register with said mouth, ing thevsevered blank from said restait-asie said carrier provided with cutting edges at with a roliing motion said respective slots for severing the molten 5c i3. in d vice ci the character described, glass in said respective receptacles lfrom the 115 combination ci ,a moten- V iss chamber molten glass in said chamber, said Webs reiiavmg e mouth, glassreceptacie comprhV` spectiveiy acting as gates for said mouth, and ing; Wells, one of which Walls has movement a slanting chute adjacent said carrier for re- With relation to the other of said Walls for imcci ving the molten glass from said respecf 5 parting rolling movement to the glass bl anl tive receptacles and imparting rolling motion 120 in said receptacle. thereto. Y ile., In adevice ci the character described, i9. In apparatus et the class described, 'thecombnation of a molteirglass char the coinbinationl oi'a n1olten-glass chamber having a mouth, a glass-re t iai/'ing a month, a revoluble carrier, said car- Q ing Weils, one oi' which "r having slots their in and webs between 125 .relation to the other .c iets,.moiteirglass receptacles mounted nmvem to th glas?y nd slots, means for im cle, the Oibe/foi: s 'clubic motion. in cned surface i'oc n sneetive roccn- In an appar h said mourn," 13,@

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said carrier provided with cutting edges at said respective slots iorsevering the molten glass in said respective receptacles i'rom the molten glass in said chamber, said webs respectively acting as gates iorsaid mouth, a forming device, and a chute at said carrier between the chargedreceptaclc and the torming device for receiving the severed molten glass from said receptacle, and constructed and arranged -for imparting rolling motion to said severed blank between said mouth and forming' device.

20. 1n a device of the character described, the combination of a molten-glass chamber having'a mouth, an open-sided glass-receptacle, the open side ot said receptacle registering with said mouth tor receiving glass therethrough, means for severing said received molten glass, a wall with relation to which said receptacle has movement at said open side for permitting contact by said severed glass with said wall, and means for imparting said movement.

21. in apparatus for feeding glass, the combinatioh of a molten-glass chamber having a mouth, a moltcnglass receptacle at said mouth, and severing means 'for said molten glass, with means for adjusting said receptacle with relation to said mouth for adjusting the receiving capacity of said receptacle, and means for imparting movement to said receptacle with relationto said mouth.

22. In apparatus for feeding glass, the combination of a molten-glass chamber having a mouth, a movable limiten-glass receptacle at said mouth, severing means for molten glass at said mouth, and means for adjusting said receptacle `for varying its receivine capacity, the walls of said receptacle exten ing as high as the glass-level in said chamber for preventing overflow ol molten glass at said receptacle.

28. In apparatus for feeding glass, the combination of a glass-receptacle, a carrier, said carrier having a slanting face along which said receptacle is adjustable and said receptacle having a sloping nbottom merging intosaid slanting face, substantiallyv as described.

24. In a machine of the character drscribed, the combination with'a molten-glass chamber having a mouth, an intermittentlyrotating carrier having slots adapted to register with said. mouth, receptacles-"on sait carrier at said slots, severing moans i'or molten glass at said mouth, and means lor intcrmittently operating said severing means and carrier with relation to cach other.

25. In a glass feeding and delivering machine, the combination with a chamber having a mouth extending below the glass-level in said chamber, a knife at said mouth for severing blanks of -molten glass from the` molten glass 1n said chamber 'and acting as a" gate for the molten glass 1n said chamber, an

i l i l l 'i i l l l i l i i in termittentlv-rotating carrier, receptacles thereon, said carrier having openings therein at said receptacles registering with said mouth at the positions of rest oi said c rrier, said carrier arranged up and down for having movement in front of said mouth, and means operating said severing means and carrier intermittentlv.

26. in a glass chine, the combination with a molten-glass :.liamber, housing in iront of the same and having a mouth extending below the levelI oi glass in said chamber, a knife having sliding connection with said housing and acting as a gate for the molten glass in said chamber, an intcrmittentlv-rotating carrier having substantially horizontal rotary axis, receptacles i'or molten glass on said carrier arranged to be brought interniittentiv to positions or" rest in front oi said mouth lor receiving the molten glass from said chamber, and means lfor intern'iittently rotating said carrier iol disclni-rging the severed glass from said respectivc receptacles. 27. .ln a glass feeding and delivering machine, the combination with a molten-glass chamber, a housing in iront of the same and having a mouth extending .belowthe level of glass in said chamber, a knife having sliding connection with said housing and acting as a gate for the molten glass in said chamber, an interniittently-rotating carrier having substantiall)vv horizontal rotary axis, receptacles for molten glass on said carrier arranged to be intermittently brought to positions of rest in iront ot' said mouth lor receiving the molten glass lrom said chamber, and means 'for intermittently rotating said carrier for -dis charging severed glass 'from said respective receptacles, said housing. having a 'facing' dischargm g-recepforming a side i'or said. tacle.

28. in a glass ieeding and .delivering inachine, the combination with a molten-glass chamber, a housing in front of the saine and having a mouth extending below 'the level of glass in said chamber, a knife having sliding connection with said housing and actingas a gate ior the molten glass in said chamber, an intermittently-rotating carrier having substantiallv horizont al rotary axis7 receptacles lor molten glasson said terrier arrange d to be inter-mittenti)r brought to positions oi rest in l'ront ol said mouth tor being charged with the molten glass vl'rom said chamber, and means l'or interniittentlv rotating said carrier for discliarging severed glass from said charged receptacle, said housing having a ribbed lacing forming a wall for said charged receptacle with relation to which the receptacle on said carrier parting rolling motion to said charged 2i). in a glass leer-lii'ig and delivering ma. chino, the combination ol a molten-glass chan'iber, a housing having a mouth ,a knife feeding and delivering ma-y has .movement .for im:

VWmers and contacts therefor between said amolten-Glass chamber intoa i f said slide, a rotary tionv with with a rolling mo tion.

havingreciprocation inA said hensing and 33. The method or process of preparing i'orimng a gate for said. mouth, a kn1te-bar for molten lass for shapincr mechanism which the latterL a slide on said housing, receding consists 1n discharging; the molten glass from .knife-bar and slide, and

rolling` ing said slide.

means for reciprocat- Y shaping mech- In a glass 'feeding and delivering Ina- V anism chine, the coinhmation of a molten-glass 34 he method er process of preparing shaping mechanism which consists m discharging the molten-glass from a molten-Glass chamber and ischarge. glass in the form of a blank and subjecting such blank to rolling motion by surface Contact in its passage te the shaping mechanism.

35.1The method or process ot' molten glassfor shaping mechanism which consists in dischargin the molten. glass from a molten-glass cham severing said discharged glass 1n the form of a blank, and rollin f said blank by the movement of said receptacle preparatory to its discharge therefrom into the shaping .mechanism.

forming a 'gate 1for said mouth, a knife-bar for theA latter; a slide on` said housing, receding 'ers and contacts-,therefor between said imite-bar and slide, means for reciprocating carrier receptacles thereon adapted .to (intermittently,'register with said month for receiving the molten glass fromsai rmouth, 'said carrier having connecsaid Ashfle for intermittently and operating said knife and carrier. method or process of preparing preparing SUSCGSSl V receptacle in which the moltenglass 1s permitted to attain l feeding and delivering malevei substantially.r coincident with the level chme, the combination of a moltenglass The method or process ot' preparing molten glass for forming mechanism which consists in discharging the molten glass from. l chamber into receptacle in which the molten qlass is permitted to attain a level substantially coincident with the level of the molten gl in said chamber, severing molten glass in said receptacle from the lecher-fred molten c e having` a glass into a blank, ysaid slanting bottom receptacle to change said slant of said hottom for dischargingT said blank.

In testimony whereof I have subscribed mv name hereto in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

t JOHN SCHIES. Witnesses:

G. F; MoDoNNEL-L, MARY A. Seimas.

molten glass from said reeeptac of the molten glassmsaid chamber, severing f chamber having a mouth, a receptacle into 'said discharged molten glass, and then elyeotwhich molten orlass is adzptedv to discharge mg said severed glass trom said receptacle. means for severing the and means tor-shiftingr said 

